I recall an "article" (don't know it if was an Op-Ed or not) that described WHole Foods as "...chock full of pseudo science (sic)..." aimed at the boomers looking to prolong their youth. Yeah, if I buy this tea (which probably tastes awful) I'll get off "that insulin stuff"
Yea, expect that to get worse as you get older. Expect it to extend to more and more things. If I get annoyed, I just say, "The more you know, the more you know that you don't know ■■■■ about anything." Use your polite, Midwestern honesty, Chicago, to set them straight. Around Halloween, I keep a syringe (with the needle broken off) in my purse. Sometimes, I just pull off the cap, stab it into my face, and scream, which really freaks out strangers. Feel free to use this.
We are going to have to push the boomers into their graves.
Hey, be nice - I'm a boomer.
Yeah, I keep getting told by the wife how she's either been told by someone or had seen on television how something you eat or drink will get you where you don't have to worry about it any more because you'll be 'cured'. :)
Don't you know? We just have that most distinctive look about us that sets us apart from the regular people. ;)
Now that I think about it - maybe mohe's comment is a compliment - that we're fighters
Just saw a commercial for a seminar on "curing" diabetes. No mention that it is directed top people with type 2. I talks about getting of meds (which can be do-able - but that's not a cure) and losing weight without trying (hmmm, bottle that one and make a gazillion $) and talks about cure, cure, cure. I'm tempted to call to see if I quality. I doubt it - type 1 for 30+ years, but they did say in the ad that they could get you off insulin!. Anyway, I will ask how they go about changing a person's DNA - since that is the primary type 2 driver. If I cold change my DNA I probably would still have type 1 - bit I'd be 5'10" (my husband is 6'6") and have great think hair!
If I do call, I'll fill you all in
Fake a sneeze and go, "Ooops. Sorry about that but I would go get tested now if I were you." :)
Probably same place as one of my sisters. She knows everything. Just ask her. Think she's type 2 not sure but she don't listen to anybody. Not her doctor, me(type 2), sister-in-law and niece(both typ2). So now she's on both shots and oral meds and will go from one extreme to the other at times. But daddy was talking how his doctor told him about some med. She walks in and said the doctor didn't know what she was talking about. Daddy looked at her and mentioned how nice it was to have a doctor in the family. Kinda shut her up for about five minutes. ;)
So, I'm wondering if the waitress and my sister went to same medical school.
So many 'con' jobs out there it's pathetic. Should tar and feather them all. What gets me also is trying to explain things to people who have family members that are diabetic. I get the deer caught in a headlight expressions.
"You can eat ice cream? Potatoes? Rice?" "You lost feeling in the feet and not legs?" "You lost all that weight, you're cured, you don't have to worry now." All of that kind of stuff. And like I said, they have family members who are diabetic. I try to explain that yes, I can eat stuff but I monitor portions, and moderately. I eat 1/2 cup of brown rice. I get this. " You can eat all the brown rice you want. It's healthy." "Why not white rice? You wash off the starch, it's gone." "Why do you measure the amount?"
I get that and more. And then they forget what I explain and ask same thing all over again. Tongue bite time. Also will get the, "Sure you can have that? You can't eat that, it's got sugar in it."
Never ending. But what can you do other than smile and go on?
LOL, just giving you all a hard time. You aren't going anywhere.
You can go into 'shock' before your body spirals into death. Thats the beginning of the end. http://mnhealthandmedical.com/tchp_shock_series_part_2.pdf There is also insulin shock, or low blood sugar shock, which is when you get all sweaty and can't think straight and your body temp is low. Its just another name for 'low blood sugar."
LOL! I so wish we had a 'like' button. You should do diabetic stand-up comedy, Badlands.
Was that Sons of Anarchy? I know I saw that too, but can't quite place it...
However, it is not shock in the clinical sense. "Shock" has a very specific physiological definition, and is a bonafide response to trauma -- usually serious physical injury, and often including (but not requiring) significant blood loss.
Hypoglycemia symptoms are not shock, although there are some symptoms common between the two conditions.
Ignorance is bliss, Jen :-)
I agree 100%, Tim